It’s been a good week with some great tips and tech articles around the place. Here where my favourites:
Take Back Control Over Your Right Click Menus
An article over on Make Use Of which I particularly liked as I’ve been looking around for a application to do this for a while.
Philipp Lenssen’s Top Google Apps Tips
Some great tips for using Google’s applications and services like Google Docs, Gmail and search.
7 Beautiful Themes (Visual Styles) to Customize Windows Vista
As Long Zheng was saying yesterday, “Personally, the idea of using a third party visual style in Vista has never even crossed the mind and I’m someone who wouldn’t think twice about using a custom style in XP.” Even so, there are plenty of nice themes you can try, and Life Rocks has put together a list of what they feel are the 7 best visual styles for Vista. It’s a good list, I wouldn’t really disagree with any of the items on it.
Newsgator – The Most Complete RSS Solution
And some shameless self-promotion from me, this is my article, again on MUO, I spent a fair bit of time researching and writing this one so check it out!
What is rundll32.exe And Why Is It Running?
The How-to-Geek had a great post as always on troubleshooting a runaway .dll through the task manager. He also did a very useful post about useless Vista tweaks on Lifehacker.
How One Would-be Web Friend Turned Into a Stalker In Months
Louis Gray outlines a creepy experience with what seems to be a whacked-out entrepreneur. While reading it you’ll probably find yourself asking the same thing I did; Why the hell did Louis put up with this guy for so long?
The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo
In perhaps one of the best posts I’ve seen Robert Scoble write, he descends from his normal early-adopting, Friendfeed loving position and takes a very real look at an extremely successful service we never hear anything about; Meebo. Did you know they had 20 million monthly users? I sure didn’t.
Why don’t we hear anything about such a runaway web 2.0 success story?
“That A-list bloggers don’t use IM or chat much, so don’t get passionate about it the way they do about, say, Twitter (although Twitter has about 1/10th as much traffic [as Meebo]).”
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“If you are an entrepreneur and you want to reach a mainstream audience, you should hang out on Meebo more to do your research, not on Twitter or FriendFeed.”
Some good advice there.
Related posts:
- A Host of Tips – Week 1
- How to access Meebo if it is blocked
- Ten Tips for Microsoft Words
- Transparent Balloon Tips in Windows Vista
- High Quality Visual Styles, Wallpapers and Icons
- Google Gmail Tips
- Disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista
- Visual Task Tips
A lot of people can’t figure out why I was patient or nice. It’s largely due to the 1-1 notes usually being positive and wanting to trust first and dismiss second.
The individual apparently has a history of this.
http://www.calacanis.com/2007/07/03/anyone-else-being-spammed-by-alex-hammer-hscpub-aol-com/
I remember seeing that earlier this year and thinking Jason was being too hasty. Looks like he was on target!
What’s up with weird …/?fdactionkey=… links? That aren’t working btw. :)
Haha, thanks for the reply Louis. Yea, I just put it down to you being a nice guy =P
What a weirdo anyway.
Here are the working links, sorry bout that:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/newsgator-the-most-complete-rss-solution/#comment-342310
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/take-back-control-over-your-right-click-menus/#comment-342308
http://lifehacker.com/399812/philipp-lenssens-top-google-apps-tips
http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/04/the-most-underhyped-silicon-valley-success-meebo/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-rundll32exe-and-why-is-it-running/
Yeah, what Rarst said… The 7 Themes link is definitely not working.
Still no fix for the 7 themes link? Or the stalker link?
Matt it’s not my article but I think I found the two links and added them.
Thanks Martin.
Those are some pretty themes. I’m glad I whined…